Ryan Roche showed her first official Resort collection today, a significant milestone for her brand, especially when you consider that cashmere sweaters are part and parcel of the holiday season. The designer has been committed to sustainable practices since she began designing more than 10 years ago and was thinking about how to build that considered approach to luxury into a line of pre-collection essentials. She worked closely with a knitwear factory in Nepal on cashmere tanks and tees with charming lace trimmings that would make for very chic stocking fillers. The crochet cardigans—Roche’s take on the granny-patch sweater—were made by a women’s collective in Kathmandu and had a keepsake artisanal hand.

Roche has been experimenting with knits outside of her classic roster, and the ruffled viscose dress and skirt in the collection was a fashion-forward evolution of her aesthetic. She’s been careful to put one foot in front of the other in scaling her business, and that slow-and-steady approach is clearly paying off. The tailored made-in-Italy suiting and bias-cut slips came in Roche’s now signature colors—pale pink, lavender, and burgundy—and were a nice way to round out her new wardrobe of basics. They seemed primed to be the stealth gift that keeps on giving in a working wardrobe, along with those cozy cashmere sweaters.